Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

Taking it slow on the roads outside Beijing, China, hasn’t been much fun lately, but low speeds are part of the excitement at a racetrack in England.   On the National Expressway 110 between Inner Mongolia and China’s capital, thousands of motor...   read more

In order to fulfill his promise to the American people that all U.S. combat units would be withdrawn from Iraq by August 31 of this year, President Barack Obama’s Department of Defense has simply altered the designation of brigades from “combat” t...   read more

Being male isn’t the certainty it used to be for securing employment. In 1972, 75% of men had jobs, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By 2009, that rate had fallen more than 10%, down to 64.5%. The percentage of women ...   read more

The problem with the Obama Administration’s plan for taxing the rich (by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire) is that the increases really don’t target the super rich, writes James Surowiecki in The New Yorker.   By relying on an antiquated tax...   read more

The prince wants his castle back. The prince is 47-year-old Valery Kubarev of Russia, descendant of Ivan the Terrible, who claims the Russian government has no legal claim to the Kremlin and should turn over management of it to his Princes Foundat...   read more

Former college student Leo Burt is known as “Wisconsin’s state ghost.” But no one can prove that Burt is actually dead. The one-time radical who attended the University of Wisconsin four decades ago has been in hiding since he took part in what wa...   read more

Muslims have no business building a $100 million cultural center near Ground Zero in New York City, argue many conservatives and Republicans, and even some Democrats. But worshippers of Islam already have a presence in the World Trade Center neigh...   read more

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan wants all foreign private security contractors out of his country by January 2011…but there’s a loophole.   The U.S. relies heavily on security contractors for a range of important functions, from guarding s...   read more

As if health care wasn’t costly enough in the United States, from the treatment of illnesses and injuries patients bring with them into the doctor’s office, there’s the cost of mistakes made by medical professionals. One assessment has pegged the ...   read more

An early Florida supporter and major fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Francisco “Frank” J. Sánchez received a recess appointment in order to assume the post of Under Secretary for International Trade, becoming the No. 3 person in the Departm...   read more

Wouldn’t it be nice if your employer paid your student loans for you? That’s what the federal government has been doing the past eight years for a select group of government employees.   A report from the Office of Personnel Management shows 36 ...   read more

To keep from losing its business with the U.S. government, Xe Services (formerly called Blackwater Worldwide) has agreed to pay $42 million in fines to the State Department to settle hundreds of violations of export law. Had the security company n...   read more

Plastic garbage floating in the Atlantic Ocean is “a significant environmental concern,” according to oceanographers from the Sea Education Association (SEA), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Hawaii. In reviewing 22 years...   read more

Each year the English language loses hundreds of words, just from people ceasing to use them. This reality is unacceptable to the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, who are asking individuals to “adopt a word,” whether it is “old words, ...   read more

As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, John Fernandez has led the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) since September 14, 2009. The EDA is charged with encouraging private capital investments in...   read more

Rafael E. “Ralph” Martinez has served as a part-time commissioner on the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission since his appointment in 2008 by President George W. Bush. He was sworn in on May 28, 2008. His term expires September 30, 2010.   Mart...   read more